Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-04-22

mtcl IN striking OH the. Hidnlclcs ltoit'
the black man. and no answered me
substantially rs follows; with all
their prophetic wisdom, they never
foretold one event which came to pass.
"With all their keenness of vision, they
never saw anything as it was. They
Iadyocateaa dissolution of the union as
HE only means of destroying slavery.
They Lived TO see slavery destroyed, not
only without their aid. but against their
protest, while the union was preserved
and made permanent aud harmonious
No fraternity of montebanks ever lived
so long or worked so hard or did so lit
lie. Why, if they had come on my
side, instead of being utterly opposed 10
my immigrat on plan. ] should have
been whipped in Kansas and slavery
| given a new lease of power. They were
| The original secessionists, and would
have dismembered the union long be-
| fore the shot was fired at Sumter if
they could have had their way. They
| attacked the American church, the
| american congress, and every body who
| did not subscribe to their doctrine. At
the annual meeting of the American
Ant-Slavery society, held May 4, 1913,
tfo .y,.o,,.. - -es.slntiou was passed:
| Resolped, That, recognizing as we cu oith
| profound gratitude the wonderful progress our
cause has made during the last eighteen years,
| aud yet considering the effort now making TO
Impress the community with the idea that the
church and the land can and will abolish
slavery by its own virtue; and that the parties
| are able and willing to graphic with the evil,
| his society deems 1T duty to reiterate its
convictions that the only exodus for the slave
out OF his present house of bondage Is over the
'uins of the present American church and the
| present American union.
"In $780, continued Mr.. Thayer,
turning over the pages of u scrap-bool,
when every member of the Emigrant
Aid company was thoroughly convnc-
ed that Kansas and Nebraska were pre-
served for the column of free states,
Wendell Phillips, in a speech published
m Tie Ltbcrator, August 10 of that
year. declared that Kansas was q fail
IRE as q free state because we meant. rs
he said, to take possession of the coun-
try, as the Yankee race ALWAYS takes
possession of Il country-by industry,
by civilization, by houses, by mills. BY
schools, by churches. But it takes {;
long tme-it takes two centuries to do
it. You sent farmers to fight DULLES.
You sent men of thought and industry,
and expect them to dispute their way
inch by inch with the knife and the re-
volver. 1t can not be done. The mo-
ment you throw the struggle with
slavery into the half-barbarous west,
where TIL ngs are decided by the revol-
yer and bowie knife, slavery tri-
umphs."
The same year, September 2S Gar
rison wrote in his paper: Talk about
stopping the progress of slavery and
saving Nebraska and Kansas! Why,
the fate of Nebraska and Kansas was
scaled the first hour that Stephen Ar
mold Douglas consented to play his
perlidious part -
June lG, 1854 few weeks before
the first colony was started for Kansas,
Col. Thomas Wentworth Higgnson.
now of Cambridge, but then pastor of
| the Worcester Free church. said from
his pulpit; 'Hera for instance is the
Nebraska Emigration society. 1t is,
indeed, II noble enterprise and | am
proud that it owes its origin to Wor-
cester man. But where is the good of
| emigrating to Nebraska if Nebraska is
to be ouly Il transplanted Massachusetts
| and the or ginal Massachusetts has
been tr ed and found wanting? Will
the stream rise higher than its source
Settle your Nebraska ten years, and YOU
viii have your New England harvest of
| corn and grain more mXuriant in that
virgin SOL. Ali, but will not the other
Massachusetts, crop come also, of pc
litical demagoguas and wire-pullcrs,
and a sectarian religion, which will in
sure the passage Of the greatest hypo-
critic to heaven f he VIII join the right
church before he goes9 And give the
emigrant twenty years more of pros
perity, aud then ask them if YOU dare
to break the law and disturb order and
risk life merely to save their state from
he shame that has just blighted Mas
sarhusetts.'
''lf anything further is needed to sub
stantiate my charge that the old abo-
| litioninSts were secessiouists. said Mr..
| Thayer again. ''hcre is another resolu.
ton adopted by this same American
anti-slover, society in 1859"
Whereas, The dissolution of the present I'M
perfect and inglorious union between the free
and slave states would result in the overthrow
Of slavery and the consequent foundation of a
more perfect aud glorious union without the
incubus Of slavery; therefore,
| heSo aed That we invite u free CORE pond
| ence with the disun onsts Of the south in or
der to devise the most suitable ways and
means TO secure the cousummation so devoutly
| to be wished for.
Still turning over the pages of his
scrape- book and talking with the huen-
cy and ease of a person who had the
whole history of ante-bellum days and
the antislavery agitation at his
| tongues end. the man whom Charles
| Suunrr said The STATE of Kansas ouob :